Here are 10 collections-some that have been consensus crowd favorites and some under-the-radar ones-that I felt were the best this year. Hell, even two-time Best Actor Oscar winner Tom Hanks released a terrific collection. Haruki Murakami released his fourth collection translated into English.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides released his first collection. This year, there was a general consensus on what were some of the best collections. A debut that happened to win the Man Booker Prize, by the way. This year, he finally released his follow up-only it was a debut novel. Saunders reached the pinnacle of the art form. He mastered these stories over his long career and released them as a collection in 2013.
He says short stories are very hard work and oftentimes people hide behind showmanship or tricks to make a story impactful in such a short page count. George Saunders, the 21st century master of short stories, looks for a sense of a human being on the other side of the page.
